Who
---- or what
---- is to blame for the terrible effects of the climate crisis? The solutions that we propose will depend on who or what we think is causing it. A
trial role play by Bill Bigelow from the Zinn Education Project helps students understand the complicated factors involved in assigning blame.
In the trial, students represent five different "defendants": The "Market"
---- the System of Global Capitalism; the U.S. Government; U.S. Consumers; the Governments of China, India, and Other "Developing" Countries; and Oil and Coal Companies.
Each group is charged with causing the climate crisis and all its ravages: the destruction of cultures, extinction of species, putting at risk the lives of people all over the world, and even threatening the lives of people in future generations.
This free lesson is a feature of our #TeachClimateJustice campaign and one of close to 80 lessons and articles in the Rethinking Schools book,
A People's Curriculum for the Earth.
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